[70497] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Brown)
Mon May 17 17:07:53 2004
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:04:18 -0500
From: "Christopher Brown" <cbrown@concergent.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We've had a 400 up for 3 months now, very nice box. It's doing pretty
good with handling false positives, and the updates are very frequent. =20
One of the nice things for us is the ability to do per domain / per user
quarantines for clients that want that ability. It also has an
'Exchange Accelerator' to tie into LDAP on exchange servers.
We've not had any serious through put issues so far, but only pushing
500K mails a day so far.
Christopher Brown=20
Concergent, LLC=20
Wichita, Kansas=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared B. Reimer [mailto:jared@theriver.com]=20
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:48 PM
To: Claydon, Tom
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
We have done an eval of this same product (model 400). It is very cool
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virtually every regard except one: performance. We were facing 1+ hour=20
mail delays (!) through the device when pumping less than 1,000,000=20
messages per day through it. Given that they claim it can handle ten=20
times that much, I am left wondering what happened. Very disappointing
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that regard; the eval unit is being shipped back as a result. -- Jared
At 11:35 AM 5/17/2004, Claydon, Tom wrote:
>Doing evaluations on anti-spam, anti-virus solutions, and ran across
>this:
>
>http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
>
>Looks like a good box -- even won an Editor's Choice award from Network
>Computing recently.
>
>Does anyone on list have any experience with these boxes? If so, how
are
>they with false positives, quarantine capabilities, etc?
>
>Thanks,
>Tom Claydon
>Dobson Telephone
## Jared B. Reimer <jared@theriver.com>
## CTO / The River Internet Access Co.
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